“Christmas Day, a time for happiness, fun, and spending time with family, turned into the worst day of my life. I watched as my 32-year-old only child was taken from me rather than rejoicing.
At around 8 p.m. on December 25, 2025, in the Askaka Road neighborhood of Kwale, Ndokwa West Local Government Area of Delta State, Mrs. Chinyere Emeagi lamented the death of her only son, Amauche Ezeji, at the hands of an unidentified shooter.
According to Vanguard, the deceased’s mother claimed that he had brought his expectant wife to his grandmother’s house for the Yuletide celebration.
Mrs. Emeagi, who has not yet accepted the death of her son, recounted the incident as follows: “Amauche Lucky Ezeji was my only child, my hope, and my future.” All he wanted to do was drop his pregnant wife off to his grandmother’s house so the family could celebrate together, just like any respectable husband would.
“When he got a call, we were all together. He hurried away after telling us he will return soon. I didn’t see my son alive again after that.
I was informed shortly after that my son had been shot on Askaka Road. He was laying in a pool of blood when I arrived. He had been shot at close range in the chest. The individual who killed my kid had already vanished into the night, while others were shouting and fleeing in terror.
In the hopes that God would spare him, we hurried him to the hospital, but the physicians declared him dead. My entire world fell apart at that instant.
“Amauche was my sole child, not only my son. I don’t have any further sons or daughters. Even worse, on January 7, 2026, he was scheduled to bury his deceased father. “I am now getting ready to bury my only child with his father instead of getting ready for that burial,” she sobbed.
The Delta State Police Command, meantime, announced that the murder is being investigated.
The dead may have argued with some unnamed young males in a pub just before the shooting, which allegedly happened as he was leaving the establishment, according to preliminary information released by police sources in the Utagba Ogbe Division, where the event was reported.
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